Scavenging diary - new scenery pics 04/01/2015

[Cubs]

I've got an old copy of a first edition 'Warhammer Ancient Battles' rulebook and in the back were some tips on making terrain. There's instructions for making huts out of used sticky tape cardboard reels. As a result I now have close to a dozen card reels piled on my shelf, collected over the course of the last decade or so. I have yet to make a single hut.

[Vanvlak]

I've got an old copy of a first edition 'Warhammer Ancient Battles' rulebook and in the back were some tips on making terrain. There's instructions for making huts out of used sticky tape cardboard reels. As a result I now have close to a dozen card reels piled on my shelf, collected over the course of the last decade or so. I have yet to make a single hut.

It's the spirit of GW I used to love 
Go on Cubs, make one before 2014 ends 

[Cubs]

Go on Cubs, make one before 2014 ends 

Hell's teeth, not a chance! There's more on my plate than at Christmas lunch!

[Vanvlak]

January then  

Here is a build which will be made entirely of scavenged stuff:


Front row, left to right:
beauty product jar top, electric bulb holder part, felt pen top, different electric bulb holder part
Back row, left to right:
Space Marine (for scale only, not part of build!), plastic wine glass without base (from the staff party), part of an empty spray paint can



The inspector general does his stuff. Meet Mr. Tycho Brahe-Wolsey, who was also scavenged from the street (by a friend who is allergic to cats and who found this stray and, ah, donated him to me). Like the Space Marine, Mr. T. B.-W. will not be part of the project, although he will undoubtedly contribute to its quality.

Any idea what this will be?

[Blodwin]

An expensive vet bill when he eats your space marine?

[Vanvlak]

An expensive vet bill when he eats your space marine?

 
Ha! Good guess, but no - I rescued the Beakie (and the bits too) 

[Vanvlak]

2-style ('50s futurist for'ard, functional aft) spaceship escape pod.
With our new model posing for scale whilst showing a bit of leg...

[Predatorpt]

Nice pod Just one question, how did you glue so many different materials together? Hot glue, contact glue...or just superglue? 

[Vanvlak]

Nice pod Just one question, how did you glue so many different materials together? Hot glue, contact glue...or just superglue? 
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Just superglue - and it's quite effective with these. On larger surfaces (I have an example nearing completion) I have tried PVA glue, which if given time to dry seems to work well and produces a less brittle bond.

[Predatorpt]

Never had any luck with superglue, but I'll have to try it then. Thanks.

[Mason]

Nice thinking!
 

[YPU]

Just superglue - and it's quite effective with these. On larger surfaces (I have an example nearing completion) I have tried PVA glue, which if given time to dry seems to work well and produces a less brittle bond.

Quite, I have two large washers glued together with PVA that I can't get apart for the life of me. 

[Vanvlak]

The weather left me unable to spray the pod, so here's an older project which is around 90% scavenged and which I completed yesterday. It's a small spaceship inspired by Deadzone artwork, and although it only looks very little like the original art, I posed a couple of Deadzone types for scale. The Enforcer (the non-red one) is about Space-Marine-high.

There she is, a piece of junk which is the fastest - er - whatever...


The engine:


Note the Guinness widget used as oxygen and fuel tanks.

Now this view shows clearly the vintage (as in which scrap was used) of the ship:


I might still name her The Hoover....

Last one:


I used:
a car vacuum cleaner 'hull'
2 Guinness widgets
several bits of plastic light fittings for the engine
a couple of plastic seals for the 'eyes'
the only real model bit - a warp drive/warp projector gun (slung beneath the hull) which comes from an A-43 weapon.

Will be used as an objective, mainly.

[Mason]

Never had any luck with superglue, but I'll have to try it then. Thanks.

If you are having trouble sticking things with superglue try putting a tiny bit of greenstuff in between the two objects and putting a dab of the glue on each.
You may be surprised at how good a bond the mixture creates.
 

[Predatorpt]

If you are having trouble sticking things with superglue try putting a tiny bit of greenstuff in between the two objects and putting a dab of the glue on each.
You may be surprised at how good a bond the mixture creates.
 

Thanks for the tip